Candace Nelson Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
Candace Nelson (born May 8, 1974) is a pastry chef and judge on the television series Cupcake Wars. She is credited with starting a nationwide cupcake craze with the opening of her store, Sprinkles Cupcakes, in 2005.
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Pastry chef who grew up in Indonesia. Baking runs in her family, as her French-American grandmother was known for the desserts she created at her San Francisco restaurant in the 1930s.
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Graduate of Wesleyan University (class of 1996) and Tante Marie's Professional Pastry Program in San Francisco.
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Before entering the bakery business, she and her husband, Charles (born in 1969), a native of Oklahoma, worked as investment bankers. After the dot-com bust, she decided to focus on pastry making and opened a custom cake business from her home in San Francisco. On April 13, 2005, they opened Sprinkles Cupcakes, the world's first cupcake bakery, in Beverly Hills, California.
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